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Mammoth discovery: 11-year-old boy finds well-preserved Ice Age carcass in Siberia
MOSCOW — A teenage mammoth who once roamed the Siberian tundra in search of fodder and females might have been killed by an Ice Age man on a summer day tens of thousands of years ago, a Russian scientist said Friday.
Prof. Alexei Tikhonov of the Zoology Institute in St. Petersburg announced the finding of the mammoth, which was excavated from the Siberian permafrost in late September near the Sopochnaya Karga cape, 3,500 kilometers northeast of Moscow. (AFP/GettyImages)
Siberian princess’s remarkably well-preserved body shows how little tattoo fashion has changed in 2,500 years
Princess Ukok,” who was discovered high in Siberia’s Altai mountains, is about 2,500 years old. She was buried in the permafrost, which kept her body remarkably well preserved, including tattoos that are among “the most complicated and the most beautiful” archeologists have found.
“It is a phenomenal level of tattoo art. Incredible,” lead researcher Natalia Polosmak told the Siberian Times.
Dozens dead after Russian plane breaks in two, bursts into flames in Siberian crash
A Russian passenger plane crashed and burst into flames after takeoff in an oil-producing region of Siberia on Monday, killing at least 31 of the 43 people on board, emergency officials said.
Thirteen survivors were pulled from the wreckage and rushed to hospital by helicopter but one later died. Television footage showed the plane, which had broken in two, lying in a snowy field. Only the tail and rear part of the fuselage were visible. (Photos: Emergencies Ministry Press Service/Reuters)
Odd Christmas photo of the day
A car carrying an illuminated Christmas tree and people dressed as Father Frost, the Russian equivalent of Santa Claus, drives along a road in the suburbs of Russia’s Siberian city of Krasnoyarsk, Dec, 6, 2011. (Ilya Naymushin/Reuters)
